A Media Cover Up in Kerala?
One of the biggest news stories in Kerala is the arrest of a Santosh Madhavan. This godman, known as Swami Amritha Chaitanya has been accused of being a pedophile and cheating a Dubai-based Malyali woman Seraf Edwin of Rs 55 lakh. While most bloggers stuck to the standard analysis,Kenny Jacob thinks this whole episiode is one of the biggest media cover ups in Kerala since it all started with the Interpol looking for an arms smuggler.
While all this media hungama is happening our little arms dealer will clear his tracks and escape. After a month we will forget about the entire issue. Some thing else will come up by then. Ahhh the engineering and the self finance drama, episode 3 is around the corner
As accused by someone, the arms dealer is connected to some of our politicians. There is no other way, he could get away with this Kerala. The police helped him by removing his photo from the interpol website and replaced it with the poor God man here.Our politicians and the media has grown to international standards. Politicians are into arms smuggling. And the media is doing a wonderful job giving us material to think and worry about daily, and that too semi porn content. Child porn and nude worship for Christs sake !!!!
5 comments
Kannan
May 20th, 2008, 4:45 am | #
Whats is happening to Desipundit!! Off late, irresponsible writing like this is being showcased here! Do you even read what is written in the blog? I am really disappointed!
JK
May 20th, 2008, 11:52 am | #
Kannan, Why do you call this irresponsible writing?
nishanth
May 21st, 2008, 12:31 am | #
i don’t think it is irresponsible. Yesterday a nun was accused for supplying a minor girl to santhosh sivan. there were no publicity for that. why? yes because she is not a hindu.
D.V
May 21st, 2008, 12:53 am | #
I do think JK has a valid point. Still, it has to be noted that the Godmen are equally guilty and deserve what they are getting now.
But the bigger picture is, how could all these atrocities happen in a state know for its high literacy rate.
Speking about the media,MOST of the TV channels are usally so amateurish that, when a channel is airing a comedy serial, other channels do the same. When one is airing a reality show, others follow suit, when one is airing a devotional serial, show a program of same genre even if it is a dubbed one.
And the current trend is set around EXCLUSIVE story about GODMEN. I wonder how long this super hit serial would last.
Manoj
May 28th, 2008, 6:34 am | #
I think we are giving too much credit to the media here. The media lands up wherever there is newsworthy happenings. They usually get their tip off from police stations. Thats been my experience. Mr Jacob has made sweeping references about media supremacy without giving concrete examples.
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